Dispensing device for water-coolers.



No. 662,I68. Patented Nov.,20, I900. F. A. EMERICK.

DISPENSINGDEVICE FOR WATER 'GO0LER'S.

(Application 1ed J'u.1y 28, 190D.) (No Model.)

UNTTnn STATES PATENT Ottica.

FREDERICK A. EMERICK, OF OSWEGO, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE GREAT BEARSPRING COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

DISPENSING DEVICE FOR WATER-COOLERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,168, dated November20, 1900.

Application filed July 28, 1900. Serial No, 25,068. (No model.)

Be it known that I, FREDERICK AEMERICK, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Oswego, in the county of Oswego and State of New York,(with post-office address Oswego, New York,) have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Dispensing Devices for Water-Coolers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a dispensing device for water-coolers, andparticularly to coolers designed for receiving a bottle or demijohncontaining the water.

The object of the invention is to provide means whereby the water may bedrawn without opening the cooler or removing the cork of the bottle ordemijohn, and therefore Without the necessity of removing the bottle ordemijohn until it has been emptied. An attainment of this object avoidsthe necessity of lifting the bottle from the cooler every time a glassof water is desired, and therefore avoids the inconvenience of wettingones hands in handling the bottle and also of dripping water from thebottle outside the cooler. I attain the object above specified and avoidsaid inconvenience by adapting a Siphon of special form and arrangementfor drawing the water.

My invention therefore consists in the construction, combination, andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of Vthis specification,Figure 1 represents in vertical central section a water-cooler forbottles or demijohns with my improvement attached. Fig. 2 is a plan viewof said cooler and contents with the cover of the former removed.

3 indicates the cooling jacket or receptacle, which is provided with acover et. 5 indicates a bottle or demijohn located therein, a perforatedcell, as 6, being used to centerthe bottle or demijohn and to keep theice from falling into the space occupied by the bottle when the same isremoved, whereby a new one may be more readily inserted. The siphonconsists of a tube, as 7, passed through the cork of the bottle andextended to the bottom thereof, as indicated, and a coil, as S, locatedin the space between the cell 6 and the wall of the cooler andterminating in a faucet, as 9. nected together by any suitable joint,either a section of rubber tube or a ground joint or union, as thatindicated at lO. By means of this union the section 7 of the siphon maybe readily separated from the coil 8, which is intended for permanentlocation within the cooler. After inserting the bottle in the cooler thecork thereof,together with the tube 7, is set in the neck of the bottleloosely until the union 10 is made tight with the coil, then the corkmay be firmly seated.

It will be noted that the faucet is below the level of the inner end ofthe tube 7, as is necessary for siphon action. To start the Siphon inoperation, the air may be exhausted therefrom through the faucet orwater may be forced from the bottle through the siphon by means of airinjected into the upper end of the bottle.

Air may be injected by means of a compres- Vsion-bulb 12, attached tothe vent-tube 13, which passes through the cork into the upper end ofthe bottle. This bulb may be left attached to the vent-tube 13, sinceits valves will not obstruct the admission of air to the bottle as thewater is drawn therefrom. Itis obvious that the compression-bulb mightbe utilized for placing a pressure upon the surface of the water in thebottle sufficient to force the water from the faucet 9 independently ofthe Siphon action.

The coil 8 is preferably made of block-tin,

The tubes 7 and 8 may be conthough it may be of any other suitablematerial, and said coil, instead of being located (against the wall ofthe cooler,as shown,where by a free space for ice is left between it andthe bottle-cell, may be placed against said cell, or, indeed, it maytake the place of the cell, its con volutions being placed suficientlyclose to one another to prevent the ice from falling into thebottle-space when the bottle is removed.

The jacket or receptacle of the cooler may have a different shape, andmay be made of wood or other suitable non-conducting material, and maybe provided with an elevated portion at the middle of its bottom forraising the bottle above the lower end of the si- IOO ployed within thejacket for elevating the bottle. Water resulting from melting ice usedin the cooler may be drawn therefrom by means of a faucet, as 14C,located substantially as shown.

Various changes in the form and in the arrangement of parts may be madewithout departing from this invention.

I claim- A cooling and dispensing apparatus for liquids contained inbottles or demijohns, consisting in the combination with a coolingjackethaving a bottle-support elevated above the bottom thereof,a bottle-cellmounted n pon said support in the center of the jacket, a bottleremovably located within the cell, a venttube passing through the corkof the bottle, a compression; bulb attached to the 'venttubea secondtube passing through said cork and extending to the bottom of thebottle, a cooling-coil located in the space between the said cell andthe wall of the jacket and 6X- tending through said wall at a pointbelow the bottom of the bottle, a faucet upon the protruded end of saidcoil, and a coupling or union between the inner end of said coil and thesecond tube whereby the two may be made continuous or uncoupled atwill-for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Oswego, in the county of Oswego and State of New York, this21st day of July, A. D. 1900.

FREDERICK A. EMERICK.

Witnesses:

A. H. EMERICK, G. H. BACHE.

